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From: Bill P.
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Remote Name: 209.240.198.61
Date: 03-Sep-2002
Time: 09:26 PM
Guy is featured in the current issue of No Depression magazine. It is a very interesting article that mentions Mickey several times. (Did you know that Guy and Susanna were married on Mickey's houseboat in 1972?) One quote from the article was "You have to be open to unexpected, unruly eruptions from the subconscious, but you also have to do the hard work of shaping those stray feelings into a story, a picture or a monologue that will trigger the same feeling in someone else. Ignore the subconscious and you become a Music Row or Tin Pan Alley hack. Ignore the hard work and you become a self-indulgent artiste. Few writers maintain that balance of inspiration and craftsmanship past the age of thirty, but Guy Clark has kept it into his 60's." And I think we all know somebody else well past their 30's that falls into the same category. In speaking of his music, along with Rodney Crowell and Townes Van Zandt, and others, he makes this statement: "We didn't invent this stuff. Writers like Kris K., Roger Miller, Mickey Newbury, Billy Joe Shaver and the whole outlaw crowd, were writing really good songs before we ever came along. We wanted to live up to their example. They proved that you don't have to sell the audience short; the public is a lot hipper than the music biz gives them credit for." I think I've heard somebody else say that! It was a great article.
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